Live Webinar October 18th, 2023 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Ken Blanchard Companies

Scott Blanchard (LinkedIn profile), President  The Ken Blanchard Companies; believes that the human heart is the perfect visual image to use in remembering some important aspects of good leadership.

“The beating heart of every company is made up of the combined beating hearts of all the people within that company.

People’s heads and hands—their thinking and skills—are important, but what really differentiates a highly motivated and purposeful organization are people’s hearts.

It’s the team with heart that wins. Heart is at the center of human achievement, individually and collectively.”

It’s always the leader.

A team with heart requires a leader that creates an environment where people can feel safe bringing their heart and soul to work, says Blanchard.

“Without openness, transparency, and vulnerability, people protect their hearts. This causes them to be less than fully engaged.

“Heart and human achievement require trust. We’ve always known trust was important, but we’ve learned if people don’t believe their leader has their back or is someone they can trust with their career and their psychological safety, they protect themselves.

“People want to work with a leader who has their best interests at heart, is invested in their growth and development, and is focused on meeting their needs—not a leader whose only focus is their own agenda.”

Blanchard’s research has found that when people know they have an others-focused leader, they come to work with five intentions:

1. The intention to perform
2. The intention to apply discretionary energy
3. The intention to cooperate
4. The intention to endorse their leader and organization
5. The intention to stay and grow with the organization as long as they can

The heart of the matter is dialogue.

Getting to the heart of the matter requires a set of skills, a mindset, and a process, says Blanchard.

Heart brings strategy to life.

Blanchard also uses the anatomy of the human heart to remind leaders of what needs to be attended to in any company.

“Life, love, and leadership is about getting into somebody’s heart. The human heart is part muscle, part plumbing, and part electrical.

“In our Leadership-ProfDU Of The Dayit Chain model, we teach that there are two types of leadership: strategic and operational.

Strategic leadership is our vision and plans. Operational leadership is how we are going to get there—the day-to-day goal setting, coaching, and feedback that will get us from where we are today to where we want to go tomorrow.

“Strategic leadership is important, but operational leadership is the heart that breathes life into it—or causes it to fail or achieve less.”

Heart is important in every aspect of our lives including work, says Blanchard.

“People come to work with heads, hearts, habits, aspirations, and dreams they want to put to use. Keep that alive with good leadership.”

Engagement, retention, motivation, and productivity are created through high levels of vision, purpose, and passion. In this webinar, best-selling business author and executive Scott Blanchard will share research, strategies, and day-to-day best practices you can use to dramatically increase the levels of heart—energy and enthusiasm—in your organization.

As a participant, you will:

• Explore the latest research on how trust, coaching, and an others-focused mindset impact employee intentions to stay with an organization, perform at a high level, and recommend the organization to others.
• Take a deeper look at putting research-based leadership development strategies to work in your organization—including content creation and reinforcement strategies.
• Learn day-to-day best practices of high-involvement goal setting, coaching, and performance management that you can put into use immediately.

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Taking A Heart-Centered Approach To Leadership:
Research, Strategies, & Day-To-Day Best Practices

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Live Webinar September 20th, 2023 10:00 am – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Ken Blanchard Companies

Change is a given in today’s work environment. New business models, a changing business landscape, and ever-increasing customer expectations all require agility and adaptability.

Change efforts often fail because people lack the framework and skills to guide others through change effectively. In this webinar, change expert Judd Hoekstra shares how to develop the attitudes, skills, and behaviors of a change-ready leader.

You’ll explore:

• The five predictable stages of concern you must manage at an individual and organizational level
• The four mindsets that help you become change-ready
• How to leverage the power of peer-to-peer advocacy
• How to get started developing your change skills

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how teams and individual contributors throughout your organization can learn to seek information, reframe change, share concerns and ideas, and garner the support they need to build their change capabilities.

Register today!

Presenter: Judd Hoekstra (LinkedIn profile) VP Blanchard® has 25+ years of experience leading people and organizations through change.  He is a coauthor of the best-selling books Leading at a Higher Level (Amazon link) and Who Killed Change? (Amazon link) as well as Blanchard’s Leading People Through Change® solution. Crunch Time, Judd won Blanchard’s Most Values-Led Player (MVLP) Award in 2020. Judd earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University. He graduated from the Advanced Business Management Program at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

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Becoming An Agile, Change-Ready Leader

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Online Webinar – Recorded – March 21st, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Change Management Learning Center (PROSCI)

How do you measure change management & change outcomes?

As the discipline of change management continues to evolve, clearly defining success and how we are going to measure it on our changes and change management work is crucial for practitioners and organizations.

Prosci has developed a tool called the Prosci Change Scorecard that lays out a framework for measuring success at the organizational performance (results and outcomes), individual performance (adoption and usage), and change management performance levels over the lifecycle of the project.

Join Prosci’s Chief Innovation Officer Tim Creasey, (LinkedIn profile, @timcreasey) to learn how this tool empowers you to demonstrate and track the success of your initiatives and hear real-life application story from a health care organization.

PROSCI literally “wrote the books” on Change Management:

• ADKAR®: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Communityby Jeffrey M. Hiatt
  • ADKAR®—awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement
• Change Management: The People Side of Change by Jeffrey M. Hiatt

These texts are a MUST READ for anyone performing Change management as a part of their role!

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Measuring Change & Driving Results
With The Prosci Change Scorecard

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 7th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has published the 6th edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) and a companion guide dedicated to agile practices.

The impetus?

According to the PMI 2017 Pulse of the Profession^® report, a full 71% of organizations say they are using agile approaches for their projects sometimes, often, or always. And yet, for many practitioners the adoption of agile practices often means a diminished role for the project manager.

Join Bonnie Cooper in this webinar to explore the agile infusion in the PMBOK^® Guide and the companion Agile Practice Guide, as well, and the reality of trying to integrate traditional project management and incremental, adaptive development practices.

Learning goals:

• Review of the PMBOK Guide – Sixth Edition changes and Agile Practice Guide
• Discuss what it means to be an agile project manager
• Discuss the reality of the integration between traditional project management and agile development practices

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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PMBOK® Guide Goes Agile

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Live Webinar August 24th, 2023 10:30 am – 11:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 PDU – Free
Provider:  ProThoughts

• Are you curious to explore the ongoing debate surrounding disciplined agile and traditional agile methodologies?
• Which approach is more effective in today’s dynamic business landscape?

This webinar aims to provide you with valuable insights and guidance to evaluate the effectiveness of disciplined agile in comparison to traditional agile.

The expert speaker will take you on a deep dive into the strengths and weaknesses of both disciplined agile and traditional agile methodologies.

ProThoughts will discuss how each methodology addresses the challenges faced in agile project management and explore the benefits they bring to organizations.

During this webinar, you will:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of traditional agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and XP.
• Discover the unique principles, values, and practices that define disciplined agile and set it apart from traditional agile.
• Compare and contrast the benefits of disciplined agile over traditional agile, such as scalability, adaptability, and flexibility.
• Evaluate the potential drawbacks and challenges associated with implementing disciplined agile and how they differ from those in traditional agile methodologies.
• Explore real-world case studies of organizations that have successfully adopted either disciplined agile or traditional agile and achieved remarkable outcomes.
• Learn best practices for evaluating the readiness of your organization to adopt disciplined agile or transition from traditional agile.

Engage in a live Q&A session with ProThoughts panel of experts, who have extensive experience in both disciplined agile and traditional agile methodologies.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain clarity on the disciplined agile versus traditional agile debate and equip yourself with the knowledge to drive effective agile transformations in your organization.

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Settling The Agile Debate:
Is Disciplined Agile Better Than Traditional Agile?

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Live Webinar August 23rd, 2023 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Ken Blanchard Companies

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Improving Your Personal Effectiveness

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